Residents Seek to Protect Mountain Maryland from Fracking’s Damages

June 23, 2016

Fracking in Maryland: Just like PA and WV.  Really? From Engage Mountain Maryland, June 22, 2016,  http://www.engagemmd.org, EngageMountainMaryland@gmail.com Maryland Department of the Environment, MDE, has published “Issue Papers” that outline the regulations on hydraulic fracturing, “fracking” for Maryland. The 2.5 year moratorium will expire in October of 2017. With the moratorium came a mandate to [...]

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Fossil Fuels’ Two-way Assault on Children’s Health Needs to Stop

June 22, 2016

A children’s health expert, seeing our kids imperiled by fossil fuels and climate change, calls for a kids-first revamp of energy policies From an Article by Brian Bienkowski, Environmental Health News, June 21, 2016 Fossil fuels represent a two-pronged attack on the health of children, a leading health scientist has warned. To foster health and [...]

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States Struggle to Deal with Radioactive Fracking Wastes

June 21, 2016

Potentially dangerous drilling byproducts are being dumped in landfills throughout the Marcellus Shale with few controls From an Article by Jie Jenny Zou, Center for Public Integrity, June 19, 2016 <<< Drill cuttings from fracking are radioactive wastes like the truckload shown here in West Virginia. — Photo Courtesy of Bill Hughes >>> The Marcellus [...]

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Some 60 Organizations Send Pipeline Protest Letter to Governor of Virginia

June 20, 2016

Environmental groups protest McAuliffe’s energy policies From an Article by Duncan Adams, Roanoke Times, June 15, 2016 A grassroots alliance of 57 groups chided Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Wednesday for, in their view, turning a deaf ear to the concerns of communities facing impacts from natural gas pipelines, offshore drilling, coal ash, climate change and [...]

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Toxic Air Pollution From Oil and Gas Industry Is Threatening Over 10 Million Americans

June 19, 2016

Interactive Map Shows Where Toxic Air Pollution From Oil and Gas Industry Is Threatening 12.4 Million Americans From an Article by Earthworks, EcoWatch.com, June 15, 2016 Two leading national environmental groups—Clean Air Task Force (CATF) and Earthworks—unveiled a suite of tools Wednesday designed to inform and mobilize Americans about the health risks from toxic air [...]

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Public Wastewater Treatment Plants Off-limits for Fracking Wastes

June 18, 2016

EPA bans disposal of fracking waste water at public treatment plants From an Article by John Hurdle, NPR StateImpact PA, June 16, 2016 Photo: Waste Treatment Corporation in Warren, Pa. The EPA has banned oil and gas producers from using publicly owned treatment facilities to dispose of fracking waste. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has [...]

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Toxic Chemicals from Oil & Gas Operations Found Inside Residents

June 17, 2016

Toxic Chemicals Found in Residents Living Near Oil and Gas Operations in Pavillion, Wyoming From an Article by Coming Clean, EcoWatch.com, June 16, 2016 A coalition of community and environmental health groups released Thursday a first-of-its-kind research combining air monitoring methods with new biomonitoring techniques to determine if toxic air emissions from natural gas operations could [...]

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Fracking has Become a Corporate Device for Profits without Adequate Protections

June 16, 2016

The Dominion of Hydrocarbons, and No Equitable Resolution Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor & Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV   A wise man once defined empire as a “political system that brings wealth from the periphery to the center.” The British Empire famously brought wealth from all over the world to London, [...]

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Gas Pipelines Uproot People, Destroy Farmland & Forests, and are Dangerous

June 15, 2016

A Country’s Need for Natural Gas, A Woman’s Beloved Farmland, A Pipeline that Tore a Country Apart From an Article by Brad Horn, Washington Post Magazine, Sunday, June 12, 2016 . If it made it through the arduous approval process, Dominion’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline — 560 miles long from the hills of Harrison County, [...]

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PHOTO PROJECT: The Faces and Places of the Fracking Boom

June 14, 2016

The Marcellus Shale Documentary Project in Pittsburgh From an Article by Kara Holsopple, The Allegheny Front, June 10, 2016 The story of the fracking boom in Pennsylvania and nearby states runs as an almost continuous narrative in the region’s press. But covering the blow-by-blow of new drilling sites, protests, lawsuits and regulations is just one [...]

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